RLE images

I have an old game that uses RLE's to display the images and i want to make
a game-editor for it.
Unfortunately, the author of the DLL's that do the RLE decoding doesnt seem
to exist anymore.
(DIgitalFX).
A search on internet points to F.A.S.T Projects
(http://www.fastprojects.com). However, this site no longer seem to
carry any information on the rle encoding and now just has links to
advertising sites.

Is er anyone here who worked with RLE's before (although the dll's seem to
be over 7 years old) and can tell me
where i can get more info on the way rle's are stored ?

Tia,

Hi,

As its a game it may well use a custom RLE algorithm, although most RLE
algorithms work similarly - its unclear quite how much info you have on the
game and its DLLs.

All I can suggest is that you try out some of the standard RLE algorithms
used to encode/decode say BMP/PCX formats and see if they work. Googling
with 'BMP OR PCX RLE encoding OR decoding' yielded some results:
PCX
http://netghost.narod.ru/gff/graphics/summary/pcx.htm
http://netghost.narod.ru/gff/vendspec/pcx/pcx.txt
RLE/BMP/GIF
http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~matt/courses/.../gformats.html

If that fails you could try passing 'control images' to the decoder to see
what it produces and maybe work it out that way or hell if time wasn't
finite we could reverse engineer the DLL back to asm and pick out the
algorithm that way

Best of luck,
--
rob

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| I have an old game that uses RLE's to display the images and i want to
make
| a game-editor for it.
| Unfortunately, the author of the DLL's that do the RLE decoding doesnt
seem
| to exist anymore.
| (DIgitalFX).
| A search on internet points to F.A.S.T Projects
| (http://www.fastprojects.com). However, this site no longer seem to
| carry any information on the rle encoding and now just has links to
| advertising sites.
|
| Is er anyone here who worked with RLE's before (although the dll's seem to
| be over 7 years old) and can tell me
| where i can get more info on the way rle's are stored ?
|
| Tia,